Cities and towns - Belgium

Date: 1815 - 1820

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Boag, W, active 1820?

Reference: D-013-020

Description: Shows a view of the Scheldt River and a map of the city of Antwerp. The historical text mentions 1809 and 1814 as dates in the past. Lists the ships of the combined English and French fleet. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on sheet 575 x 450 mm.

Date: 1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PA1-o-1732

Description: Photographs include - Groups of soldiers of the New Zealand Education Division in Leverkusen, Germany. Views of Leverkusen include - Factory of F Bayer & Co (Bayer AG today). The Kasino. The School. House of managing director of F Bayer & Co. Public sculpture. Offices of F Bayer & Co which were used as the New Zealand divisional Headquarters. Children skating on the ice. Other places in Germany include - The Rhine at Cologne. Cologne Cathedral. The Hohenzollern Bridge. Bonn. Mulheim. Aachen. On his way back from Germany Lindsay Mackersey travelled through Belgium and France, and there are photographs of war damaged buildings. Other photographs were taken during the channel crossing to Folkestone, after which he was based at Hornchurch. Photographs of English places include - Folkstone. Hornchurch. Amesbury. Oxford. London and the Albert Memorial. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1941-[ca 1995]

From: Crook, Gordon, 1921-2011: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9986-3

Description: Includes:- Photographs of trips to Spain and Portugal, 1958-1959 Trip to Expo 58 (Brussels World Fair), Belgium. Beit Meri, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, 1942 and later. Friend with a child, possibly Morocco, ca 1960. Photographs taken by Linda Cocks during a trip to New York. Friends in England, 1960s. Gordon Crook holding a child, Damon Barnes, and Damon's mother, Rosina, 1960s. Photographs of children, a friend, and an art work, all in the form of cards, 1960s-1990s. Garden, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, 1941. Egyptians pulling a dhow along a canal, Egypt, 1941. Weatherboard hotel, England. Stone man on New Zealand beach, 1994. Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1815 - 1820

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Hernaman and Perring (Firm)

Reference: D-013-021

Description: Shows a view of the Scheldt (Schelde) River and a map of the city of Antwerp. The historical text mentions 1809 and 1814 as dates in the past. The view of the river shows a windmill and other buildings along the banks. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on sheet 568 x 440 mm.

Date: 1918 - 1919

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-919

Description: Sketchbook contains sketches of a New Zealand soldier's travels in Belgium and France, and the immediate consequences of the first World War on the landscape. Includes: German headquarters at Spa, Rue Renier Verviers, Church of St Antoine Verviers (Belgium), Grand Place Namur, Chateau de Modare (Huy), Huy sur Meuse, Rue St Mengold (Huy sur Meuse), The Fortress and Cathedral and Bridge at Huy, Pont de Fragnee (Liege), Pont des Arches (Liege), entrance to Fort Loncin (Liege), machine gun emplacements at Fort Loncin, part of the ruins of Fort Loncin (Liege), the Sambre at Charleroi, memorial to the massacred inhabitants of Tamines, Hotel de Ville and Monument to Reine Brunehaut at Bavay, Citadel from the Pont de Louvain at Namur, Lobbes sur Sambre, Rue de Nimy at Mons, Place Jean Mabuse at Maubeuge, Ramparts at Maubeuge, Maubeuge, Porte de Mons at Maubeuge, Le Cateau (2 views), Ruelle Grasseaux and Notre Dame and other scenes at Valenciennes. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - [On cover in circle]: 9 Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on 30 pages of hardbound sketchbook, 132 x 175 mm. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Drawings Paintings & Prints; typescript reminiscences transferred to Manuscripts from there..

Date: 1916-[ca 1925]

From: Cory-Wright, Silston, 1888-1976: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7080-8

Description: Postcards and books of postcards. One group depicts towns in France and Belgium before and after the First World War. These include Albert, Hazebrouck, Meessen (Messines), La Boisselle, and Ypres. There are also a group of war memorials. Another booklet depicts views of Lille, France, and there are several photographs of stirling and Qubec. An album of 23 photomechanical prints depicts Cairo and its environs. Included in this are five post cards of Egypt. The album and the postcards are dated 1916. Eleven photographic postcards published by the Swiss electrical engineering firm, Brown, Boveri & Company, record its involvement in the process of the electrification of the Swiss railway system. Included in this sequence are electric locomotives, a hydroelectric power house, various electrical goods such as turbines, and a view of the BBC factory at Baden. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 91 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 19 colour photo-mechanical print(s).